>Good point. Left me wondering if they considered a different keyword for the using statement. 'wrapping', 'disposing'; ?
>Actually 'disposing' sounds good - descriptive of what it does.....
My point is that it is an unnecessary directive, you can write the same program without it, more verbose, but more readable as it answers unambiguously the question raised by Nicholas
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